Kim Jong Il, and his third known partner, former dancer Ko Yong Hui. She was educated in Switzerland alongside her brother and rose rapidly up the ranks once he inherited power after their father ...

Kim Jong Un is believed to have been born in the early 1980s to Kim Jong Il and Ko Yong Hui. His birth year remains unconfirmed by the North Korean government, which is a contrast to how his ...

In the latest edition of the Asia News Weekly on The Korea Times podcast, host Steve Miller discusses North Korea's rhetoric, ...

Kim Kyong Hui, Kim’s aunt and the first woman in North ... of the Sun where the embalmed bodies of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il – her husband’s late grandfather and father – are enshrined.

He promotes both his youngest son, Kim Jong Un, and his sister, Kim Kyong Hui, to the rank of general. Kim Jong Un is also named as vice chairman of the party’s central military commission.

It was only after Mr Kim Jong Un turned three or four years old that his mother, Ms Ko Yong Hui, told her father, Mr Ko Kyong Taek, that she was living with Mr Kim Jong Il. Speaking at the event ...

Here is a look at the life of the late Kim Jong Il, former Leader of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Details of his life were mysterious and varied from source to source. Personal:Birth date: ...